Romans 4:18 -Against Hope #109

Does your situation look hopeless? Guess what? So did Abraham’s! Today, I am continuing from where I left off last week in Romans 4. Romans 4:18 says, “Against all odds, when it looked hopeless, Abraham believed the promise and expected God to fulfill it.” The odds were completely against Abraham and Sarah to conceive, but despite his circumstances Abraham continued to believe anyway. Not only did he believe, but he expected God to fulfill His promise.

When there was nothing left to hope for, Abraham still hoped. As a result, he became a father of many nations. Not only did his faith and hope bring Isaac, but a legacy was built because of his trust in the Lord. You and I are here because of Abraham’s faith.

Just like Abraham, we have hope in God despite a hopeless situation and because of this generations will be changed. Your faith and my faith doesn’t just impact the current situation you are praying for, but it impacts those around you too. One day we will be able to tell our children that they are here because of the faith and hope we had for them. Not only will our children be born, but then their children will be born and then their children’s children will be born.

Abraham’s hope and faith created life-giving power. You have the same authority to shut out doubt and hopelessness and to step forward in walking in true faith. Your faith can move mountains. Your faith can birth new legacy’s. Despite how hopeless your situation is, expect God to fulfill His promises to you.

How are you demonstrating your faith to the Lord today? Do you expect God to fulfill His promises to you?

33 Comments

FrugalMomOf8

Cali Girl

Caroline,
This reminds me of something my dad told me a few weeks ago… We were rejoicing in a Big Answer to prayer of a loved one’s turning her life back over to God! And how Awesome it was… And my dad said,

“Today is not what Faith is about. Today is about Sight. Faith was those months ago when all looked completely hopeless and we kept on a praying and believing… Even though it looked Hopeless.”

That has helped me a lot in the other situations that life hands me…to not lose Faith but to keep looking Up! Because I had struggled with losing Faith with this loved one! Devil whispered, “Your prayers aren’t doing any good… No need to pray every day for Her!’ What a lie!!! God was calling her back to Him at that very moment… And o, what a Good God we serve!!!

Kylie

Thank you, thank you, thank you for this post! After 5 miscarriages and no babies this side of heaven, it caught me off-guard to find out today that my sister-in-law is expecting her 4th child. I’ve handled it well mostly, but Abraham’s story was helpful in reminding me all hope is not lost in mine and my husband’s situation.

Aw what a great post. This weekend was tough. I was all alone with my toddler when my hubs was away and we were stuck inside all weekend due to bad weather. I felt pretty overwhelmed at times so this would have been perfect to read.

I love your Heavenly reminders every Monday. 🙂 Today I was reading the verse about how, if a child asks for bread the parent won’t give them a serpent — how much more does the Heavenly father give good gifts to His children when they ask Him. And I felt the Holy Spirit say, “I’m not gonna make you look stupid in the end for believing. And I’m not going to give you something else in place of what you’re praying for. I WILL be faithful. I know how to give good gifts. Trust me. Trust me.”

We need to remember that God’s plan includes lots of variables we can’t always see. The pieces of adopting my daughter included a rather wayward woman, a one night stand, a couple who changed their minds about being matched with our baby. It is amazing to see the dominoes that God lines up to fulfill His works.

wifemummynurse

Oh, my word….I cannot get away from OR enough of hearing and reading about Abraham and his amazing faith in God. And, when you were talking about telling our children of how our faith in God caused them to be here, this is exactly what we do in our situation. I often tell our son what a genuine miracle he really is and how God opened my barren womb for one moment in time just so he could be conceived and born for such a time as this. When his faith is wearing thin, and he sees an impossible situation in our path, I remind him how GOD can do anything, and he is the living proof!!!! God’s power demonstrated in person through his existence greatly increases his faith in God’s power to answer any prayer that he prays. I just praise God for all He has done and thank you for this wonderful post! One day you and Colby will tell your sweet children how GOD intervened to make it possible for them to be here!!! What a joyful day that will be!! 🙂

Caroline, thank you so much for the reminder about Abraham and how he clung to his faith in God and His promise, even when everything around him tried to persuade him to doubt. I love that our faith impacts others. Loved your words today, and I’m taking them to heart.